Implement for tightening and splicing fencing-wire



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E. G. SESSIONS & L. B. EMBRBY. IMPLEMENT FOR TIGHTENING AND SPLIGINGFENCING WIRE.

' No. 510,299. Patented Dec. 5,

2 Sheets-Sheet E. G. SESSIONS & L. B. EMBREY. IMPLEMENT FOR TIGHTENINGAND SPLIOING FENCING WIRE.

No. 510,299. I Patented Dec. 5, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Qrntcn, Y

EGBERTFGISESSIONS, OF RICE, AND LEONARD n. EMBREY, on CORSIOANA, TEXAS.

IMPLEMENT FOR TIGHTENING AND SPLICING FENCING-WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 510,299, datedDecember 5, 1893.

Application filed June 20, 1893. Serial No. 478,264. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- showing a fencing-wire or strand held inthe Be it known that we, EGBERT G. SESSIONS, loop-forming and twistingjaws in the poresiding at Rice, and LEONARD B. EMBREY, sition it lieswhen the loop therein is about residing at Corsicana, county of Navarro,to be formed. Fig. 7,isasimilar view, show- 53 State of Texas, citizensof the United States, ing the wire or strand, after a twist has beenhave invented new and useful Improvements made and another about to bemade. in Implements for Tightening and Splicing In the accompanyingdrawings, the refer- Fencing-WVire, of which the following is a encenumerals 1 and 2, indicateapair of hanspecitication. dles, pivotedtogether by a pivot pin 3. In 10 Our invention relates to improvementsin front of the pivot-pin 3, the handles are hand-tools or implementsfor tightening the formed into jaws 4, and 5, which are provided wiresof wire fencing or taking up the slack with curved spiralguide-extensions 6 and 7, therein which occurs from various known whichextend forward in an inclined direccauses after the fence has beenbuilt, said tool tion. The outer surfaces of these guide-ex- I5 orimplement being also adapted for joining tensions are, preferably,convex, and together together or splicing the ends of fencing-wir withthe outer face of the jaws at and 5, maybe which may become broken.grooved, as at 8, for the purpose of decreasing Said invention has forits object the provisthe weight of the implement, such grooving ion of atool or implement of the character in no manner impairing their strengthor du- 7o 20 mentioned havinganovel construction whererability.

by a loop is formed in the strand of wire which The front face of eachof the guide-extenis to be tightened and the parts of such wire sions 6and 7, is formed with curved,inc1ined adjacent to the loop are broughtinto paralguide-surfaces 9,running from their rear ends lelism so thatthey may be intertwisted acto their points or front ends and said exten-'z 5 curately and neatly; and by which novel sions are concave on theirinner faces, as construction the parts of a broken wire are shown in thedrawings. Projecting from the brought into parallelism While beingtwisted concave faces at suitable distance from the or spliced,in orderthat the joint or splice may front ends of the extensions are lugsorpins, be strong, accurate and neat; and my inven- 10, which when thejaws are closed and the o vention also has for its object the provisionextensions brought together contact with each of means for forming loopsof different sizes other forming a cross-bar behind which is a in thefencing-wire or strand, whereby a greatwire-receiving pocket 11. er orlesser amount of slack can be taken up Behind the pocket 11, grooves 12and 13, at one operation of the implement. located one in advance of theother, are

' 5 To such ends our invention consists in the formed in the jaws 4 and5, so that when the novel construction and combination 'of parts jawsare closed said grooves form wire-rehereinafter described and claimed,reference ceiving recesses, communicating with the being made totheaccompanying drawings, in guide-surfaces 8 and 9. which The operationof the implement is as fol- 0 Figure 1, is a perspective view of animplelows: When it is desired to tighten the wires ment constructedinaccordance with our inof a fence to take up the slack therein, thevention, the loop-forming and twisting jaws handles are moved in theproper direction being in their open position. Fig.2is aplan and thejaws opened and passed over the view,saidjaws bein'gclosed. Fig. 3,isafront wire, and then being closed the wire is re- 5 view, the jawsbeing closed. Fig. 4, is a side ceived in the pocket 11 and preventedescapview of one of said jaws, showing, in dotted ing therefrom by thelugs 10, with which the lines, a loop formed in a fencing-strand forwire engages. The wire now lies in the space tightening or taking up theslackin the same. between the guide surfaces 9, and runs at Fig. 5, is adetail front view, the front wire to right-angles to theguide-extensions as shown I00 50 be twisted-lying in a pocket behind theconin Fig. 5. To tighten the wire, the implement fining devices. Fig. 6,is a detail front view is rotated to the right, the wire slipping up theguide-surfaces 9, as shown in Fig. 6. Further rotation of the implementbrings the wire to the extremities of said guide-surfaces and the partsof said wire to be twisted together lie parallel with each other, and inposition to be twisted. The wire is twisted around the lugs 10 bycontinued rotation of the implement and that portion of the wire whichencircles the said lugs is formed into a loop; in this manner the slackof the wire is taken up and the wire drawn tight. In case the slack ofthe wire is too great to permit it being tightened by forming a looparound the lugs 10, it is placed in one or the other of the recesses 12or 13, which being located at some distance from the front of the lugs10, where the twisting operation takes place, a larger loop, as shown inFig. 4., is formed, and consequently a greater amount of slack is takenup.

By arranging the wire-engaging lugs in rear of the extremities of theguide'extensions the parts of the wire to be twisted together lieparallel so that a perfect twisting of the wire is accomplished incoutradistinction to one part of the wire being wound about the other.This is advantageous in that the slack is taken up equally from bothsides of the point where the operation is performed and an accurate andneat intertwisting of the wire accomplished.

The perfect intertwisting of the wire effected by the employment of ourimproved implement also avoids liability of the wire breaking during theoperation.

\Ve are aware that a wire twisting implement has heretofore beenconstructed which is provided with flared jaws having ribs to catch overthe wire, which jaws when closed, resemble an augerbit so that a loop isformed when the wire is twisted around the ribs, and such, therefore, wedo not claim. The ribs in such prior device are, however, formed at theextreme ends of the jaws and it is not provided with guides extendingbeyond the ribs. In the use of such prior device it is essential thatthe operator shall present the instrument accurately at right angles tothe wire, and if it is not so presented the wire will not beintertwisted, but one part of the wire will wind itself around theother, the wire in many instances being broken, and the slack of thewire is not evenly taken from both sides of the point where theoperation is performed, which is manifestly objectionable. The loopformed by such device, also, is misshapen and unsightly.

By our construction we provide an implement which can be operated by aboy or un skilled hand and it is not necessary that the implement bepresented at right angles to the wire, for the reason that theguide-surfaces extending beyond the wire-engaging lugs at all timesbring the parts of the wire to be twisted into parallelism, in whichposi tion an accurate intertwisting of the wire is effected, taking theslack evenly from both sides and avoiding liability of the wire beingbroken.

Our improved implement is also adapted for joining together or splicingthe ends of a broken fence-wire, the ends of the wire being passed inbehind the lugs 10, at opposite sides, then along the sides of the jaws4 and 5, and the ends placed in one or the other of the recesses 12 or13. By now rotating the implement, the ends of the wires areintertwisted and securely joined or spliced.

For the purpose of locking the jaws closed, we may provide a button 15,Fig. 1, pivoted to one handle and adapted to be turned toengage theother handle back of the pivot 3.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is 1. Inawire-tighteningimplement, the combination with a pair of pivotedhandles provided with jaws having spiral guide extensions, of wireengaging devices carried by said guideextensions and located in rear ofthe extremities thereof, substantially as described.

2. In a wire tightening implement, the combination with a pair ofpivoted handles provided with jaws having spiral guide-extensions formedwith wire-guiding surfaces, of Wire engaging devices carried by saidguideextensions and located in rear of the extremities thereof,substantially as described.

3. In a wire-tighteningimplement, the combination with a pair of pivotedhandles provided with jaws having spiral guide-extensions, of two ormore sets of wire-engaging devices located in rear of the extremities ofsaid guide-extensions, substantially as described.

4:. In a combined wire-tightening and splicing implement, thecombination with a pair of pivoted handles provided with jaws havingspiral guide-extensions, of grooves formed in said jaws in rearoftheextremities of said guide-extensions which when the jaws are closed,form a wire-receiving recess, substantially as described.

5. In a combined wire-tightening and splicing implement, the combinationwith a pair of pivoted handles provided with jaws having spiral-guideextensions, of lugs carried by said extensions in rear of theirextremities and grooves formed in said jaws in rear of said lugs,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

EGBERT G. SESSIONS. LEONARD B. EMBREY. YVitnesses:

M. Y. WILsON, J. M. WEAVER.

